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The Black Panther Party emerged from the Black Power era that succeeded the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.

What was the justification for the impact that it had on their lives?” was a focus of the FBI, why Billie Holiday was a focus of the FBI-I want to know why so many young activists were harassed by the FBI. “I want to know the breadth and depth of the conspiracy to assassinate Fred Hampton and how taxpayer dollars were spent on his assassination.

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“As a victim of COINTELPRO, I want to know, with honesty, with clarity, and with no redactions, the full extent of the FBI’s nefarious operations,” the congressman said. Rush, who blames the FBI for Hampton’s death, called for a full reporting of the domestic spying on civil rights activists and others. In 1969, Hampton was the party chapter’s chairman who created the first Rainbow Coalition before he was killed in a predawn raid by Chicago police. Rush, who co-founded the Black Panther Party’s Illinois chapter, was close friends with Fred Hampton.

“And I think it is very timely and very important that we do it at this moment.” “I want to shine a bright light on this dark chapter of our nation’s history,” Representative Bobby Rush of Illinois said in a statement introducing his proposal on May 4. Edgar Hoover-who oversaw the FBI during the program – will be removed from the FBI headquarters in Washington. Under the bill, within six months of enactment, the name of J. House that would require the government to release its decades-old records from COINTELPRO, an FBI-run covert surveillance program that monitored the Black Panthers, as well as civil rights and anti-war activists, among others.

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